Forced Labour

To obtain the workforce required for repairing and building infrastructure, the conquerors would often require the island population to do forced labour. Throughout the entire occupation, Cretans in their thousands were compelled to work constructing roads and buildings, or loading and unloading supplies for the occupation troops. It was not uncommon for unfortunate civilians to be arrested at random in the street or to be selected from registers of names to perform such tasks against their will.